Friday, July 24, 2009

Cfp: 5th Joint Conference, Society for European Philosophy & Forum for European Philosophy, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, August 27-29, 2009

Update (July 24, 2009):
The Keynote Speakers are listed here: http://sepfep2009.wordpress.com/keynote-speakers/.
The Programme may be found here: http://sepfep2009.wordpress.com/programme/.
Update (May 8, 2009):
The website is here: http://sepfep2009.wordpress.com/.
Original Post (January 14, 2009):
Keynote Speakers:
Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht)
Claire Colebrook (Edinburgh)
Leonard Lawlor (Penn State)
Christopher Norris (Cardiff)
Plenary Sessions:
The Future of Hermeneutics (Chair: Nicholas Davey, Dundee) and The Role of Imagery in Ontology and Thought (Chair: Clive Cazeaux, UWIC). If you would be interested in participating in either of these, please contact Clive Cazeaux by 1 May 2009 at ccazeaux@uwic.ac.uk.
The SEP-FEP Joint Conference offers faculty and graduate students the opportunity to present papers in any area of European Philosophy. Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be submitted by 1 June 2009 to Juliana Cardinale, either in electronic form to J.Cardinale@lse.ac.uk or by mail to:
Forum for European Philosophy
Room J5,
European Institute
Cowdray House,
Portugal Street
London School of Economics,
London, WC2A 2AE
United Kingdom
In addition to proposals for individual papers, proposals for themed panels of (up to) four speakers on any area of European Philosophy are also invited. If you would like to organize a themed panel, please contact Clive Cazeaux by 1 May 2009 at ccazeaux@uwic.ac.uk.
A prize of £250 will be awarded to the best graduate paper, as judged by members of the SEP and FEP Committees. Graduates who would like their papers considered for the prize should email their papers (maximum 3,000 words) as Word 2003 attachments to Clive Cazeaux at ccazeaux@uwic.ac.uk by 3 August 2009.
Deadline Summary:
Panel proposals by 1 May 2009 to ccazeaux@uwic.ac.uk
Paper abstracts by 1 June 2009 to J.Cardinale@lse.ac.uk
Graduate papers in full by 3 August 2009 to ccazeaux@uwic.ac.uk

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WHAT IS 'THEORY'?

Institutionalised philosophy has before it something called 'philosophy,' which is emphatically not philosophy, that does not follow the protocols of that discipline, that does not measure up to apparently transparent standards of logical rigour and clarity. . . . This institutionalised 'philosophy,' which is not itself, produces another paradox as well: it proliferates a second philosophy outside the boundary that philosophy itself has set, and so it seems that philosophy has unwittingly produced this spectral double of itself. It may be that what is practised as philosophy in most of the language and literature departments . . . has come to constitute the meaning of 'philosophy,' and so the discipline of philosophy must find itself strangely expropriated by a double. And the more it seeks to dissociate itself from this redoubled notion of itself, the more effective it is in securing the dominance of this other philosophy outside the boundary that was meant to contain it. (Judith Butler, "Can the 'Other' of Philosophy Speak?" 241)

I shall use the word ‘theorist’ rather than ‘philosopher’ because the etymology of ‘theory’ gives me the connotation I want, and avoids some I do not want. The people I shall be discussing do not think that there is something called ‘wisdom’ in any sense of the term which Plato would have recognised. So the term ‘lover of wisdom’ seems inappropriate. But theoria suggests taking a view of a large stretch of territory from a considerable distance, and this is just what the people I shall be discussing do. They all specialise in standing back from, and taking a large view of, what Heidegger called the ‘tradition of Western metaphysics’ – what I have been calling the ‘Plato-Kant canon.’ (Richard Rorty, Contingency, Irony, Solidarity 96)

Everywhere I go, I find a poet has been there before me. (Sigmund Freud)

A man with one theory is lost. He needs several of them, or lots! He should stuff them in his pockets like newspapers. (Bertolt Brecht)

Something is happening to the way we think about the way we think. (Clifford Gertz, "Blurred Genres: the Refiguration of Social Thought" 20)

The history of thought is the history of its models. (Frederic Jameson, The Prison-House of Language)